Monday, February 27, 2012

What About Holidays? Tips for Holiday Eating

This is a great question.
Thanksgiving and Christmas meals in particular are loaded with sugar
items typically in the forms of bread, desserts and drinks.

Many times the cook (especially if it’s a relative) can be
offended if you don’t eat their food.
Here’s the best advice I can give:

Inform the cook ahead of time that you don’t do food or
drinks with sugar in it. Based upon the
K.I.S.S method I talked about in another blog post, that typically means no
desserts, no bread, no cranberry sauce, and no sweetened drinks life fruit cocktail
(which is a code word for sugar in it!).

Suggest some alternatives & make them yourself (if this
doesn’t offend the cook) – like fruit salad, smoothies, etc. I have another blog post that talks about
food swaps or “instead of this, eat this.”

Consider ordering some food from a place like Whole Foods
Market.

For birthdays, I just don’t eat the desserts, unless of
course it’s all fruit. If I know there’s
going to be a birthday celebration, I usually eat my own “dessert” (smoothies,
fruit salad, yogurt, etc.) ahead of time.
Or, if it’s at my house, I’ll make myself a smoothie or have a healthy
snack.

Since my body changed for the better during my Phase #1 Weight
Loss, it was not the time to backslide!
I figured my health was too important.

Let me also say that I have never had a problem with holidays,
even to this day. I just communicate what
I’m doing & why I’m doing it, and people understand.

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This blog is about how I went from “Sumo wrestler” weight to where I am today (as a Master’s track athlete), and how I’ve kept it off. Why do I call it Sumo wrestler weight? Because my wakeup call came while on business for 2 weeks in Japan in September 2006 when I took a picture next to 2 Sumo wrestlers, and I looked as big as them! At that time, I topped out at 5 feet, 11 inches at 268 pounds! Read more about me in the Blog Post labeled: My Sumo Weight Loss: There's Hope!